Raheel Shareef
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General Raheel Sharif HI (M) |
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| راحیل شریف | |
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| Commander-in-Chief of the Islamic Military Alliance | |
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Assumed office 6 January 2017 |
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| 15th Chief of Army Staff | |
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In office 29 November 2013 – 29 November 2016 |
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| President | Mamnoon Hussain |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif |
| Preceded by | Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani |
| Succeeded by | Qamar Javed Bajwa |
| Inspector General of Training and Evaluation (GHQ, Rawalpindi) | |
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In office 29 November 2013 – 29 November 2016 |
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| Commandant of the Pakistan Military Academy (Kakul, Abbottabad) |
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| Commander XXX Corps | |
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In office October 2010 – October 2012 |
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| Personal details | |
| Born |
16 June 1956 Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan |
| Relations |
Major Raja Aziz Bhatti Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) (uncle) Major Shabbir Sharif Shaheed (Nishan-e-Haider) (brother) Captain Mumtaz Sharif (brother) |
| Parents | (father) |
| Alma mater | Garrison Boys High School Government College Lahore Pakistan Military Academy Bundeswehr University Munich National Defense University Canadian Army Command and Staff College Royal College of Defense Studies |
| Awards |
 Nishan-e-Imtiaz Hilal-i-Imtiaz
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1976–2016 |
| Rank |
  General
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| Unit | 6th FF Regiment |
| Commands |
XXX Corps XI Division Commandant, Pakistan Military Academy Brigade Commander of an Infantry Brigade Commander, 6 Frontier Force Regiment Commander, 26 Frontier Force Regiment Brigade Major of an Infantry Brigade |
| Battles/wars |
Operation Zarb-e-Azb War in North-West Pakistan 2014 Kashmir Skirmishes |
General Raheel Sharif (Urdu: راحیل شریف; born 16 June 1956), NI(M), HI(M), is a retired four-star rank army general, who served as the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Pakistan Army from 29 November 2013 till his retirement on 29 November 2016.
He carried out operations in North Waziristan, namely Operation Zarb-e-Azb which stabilized the North-west of the country. He expanded the role of paramilitaries in Karachi which is widely credited with reducing the level of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital. The Pakistani military under his command has also supported the democratically elected government on the federal level and the Baloch provincial and local government in ending the Balochistan insurgency by pursuing reconcilliation and integration of former militants back into mainstream Pakistani society. General Sharif also developed a new brigade-level military unit to help protect and secure the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor which runs through Balochistan province. General Sharif helped to develop Pakistan's indigenous defence industry which resulted in the savings of more than $1.14 billion of Pakistan's forex, over a year and half time period.
General Sharif achieved his objectives by strengthening the role of the military in affairs directly concerning national security and foreign policy, while leaving the civilian government of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in control of social and economic policy. General Sharif overruled Nawaz Sharif on any attempted peace overtures with India and protected Pervez Musharraf from prosecution over Nawaz Sharif's ouster in the 1999 Pakistani coup d'etat. General Raheel Sharif reconciled Pakistan with America by striking against militant groups near the Afghan border, the Pakistani military carried out its first joint military exercises with Russia, and Pakistan deepend relations with China, are his signature foreign policy achievements.
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